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Modern conceptions of genre are of limited value in understanding the distinctions that medieval readers drew between history and fable; medieval claims and definitions present problems of their own. This essay turns to manuscripts of Anglo-Norman narrative that in modern scholarship have been characterized as history or romance, in verse and prose — among them the Anglo-Norman prose Brut chronicle, Wace’s Roman de Brut, Gaimar’s Estoire des Engleis, the prose Fouke Fitz Waryn, and the Roman de Toute Chevalerie. Comparison of such elements as layout, apparatus, illustration, and annotation reveals contemporary patterns of presentation and reception that are not necessarily congruent with modern classifications: the evidence of the manuscripts thus offers some access to the contemporary identities of these works, by providing an opportunity to see how in particular practice the public for Anglo-Norman narrative treated the books it was writing and reading.
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